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I apologise if I'm overlooking an obvious solution to my problem. I've tried to work it out myself but I'm not having any success.

I'm in the process of migrating my site from 1.5 to 2.5. One of the reasons that I am interested in making the change is of course the much improved user access controls.

My site is for a soccer club. I am attempting to set up my site so that certain users (team managers) will be able to able to log in to the front end and submit articles relating to their team (and ONLY their team). I have this set up easily enough with categories and user groups. Each team will have their own category and user or two that can log in and publish articles in only that category. Menu items to these categories are set up to display the articles in blog format. This will effectively give each team their own little piece of the website to use.

The problem I'm having is that there doesn't appear to be any way for the user to control the order of the articles they submit. In the "Create Article" form for the front end it says, "New articles default to the first position in the Category. The ordering can be changed in backend.".

I KNOW that as soon as I set up the teams with this they will want to change the order around for articles on their pages. Is there any way I can accomplish this without giving them access to the back end?

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I found an extension that will allow users to change the order of "front page" articles in Joomla 1.5, but nothing for 2.5. This seems like a pretty simple thing to do, but I guess it is more complex than it appears!

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I would really like to be able to offer this capability to my users. Does anyone know if this is in the works for a future release?

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Hi ,I noticed the lack of replies did you find a solution to this, I require this quite urgently as my customers site is already live.
Regards
Nigel

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I'm surprised there is no possibility in 2.5 for ordering articles manually from the front end like it was in 1.5.

Some of the sites I build for people use this functionality regularly. There seems to be a commercial solution for 2.5, but that extension would be overkill and giving restricted access to the back end is not the way I'm looking for either.

What surprises me even more is that several threads exist on the subject but not much interest is shown which could lead to believe that this functionality is not popular.

If anybody knows a simple solution… I'll be grateful

Jan

Come on Joomla development team! You have dropped the ball on this one. DOOO SOMETHING and give us a core solution!

As a Joomla, and prior to that Mambo, user with large sites we have provided a significant investment in the development and progression of Joomla over the years it is disapointing to see this sort of functionality dropped. Granted it is something only larger sites would likely make use of, but who wants to give ground to Drupal?

Daniel

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